The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned a memo directing all public school headteachers and teachers to attend a meeting with the APC governorship candidate, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi.
In a statement on Saturday, Afolabi Orekoya, Media Aide to the Ogun PDP Governorship Candidate, said the memo was circulating within the state’s public school system ahead of the August 3, 2026 meeting scheduled for the Alake Pavilion in Abeokuta.
According to the statement, the directive was issued by the Chairman of the Ogun State Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, and State Chairman of the Association of Primary School Head Teachers of Nigeria, AOPSHON, Comrade Adeosun Adekunle.
It was said to be under the purported directive of the Executive Chairman of the Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB.
The memo mandated both primary and secondary school teachers and headteachers to attend what was described as “statutory and administrative duties,” Orekoya said.
Orekoya said there was no legal or administrative basis for TESCOM and SUBEB to compel teachers to leave their classrooms for a meeting with a partisan political candidate.
He described the action as a “blatant abuse of power” and the “weaponisation of the state’s civil service for partisan political mobilisation.”
The PDP also faulted the instruction in the memo for each school branch to appear in “unique attire for easy identification,” noting that it proved the gathering was a “political jamboree and a forced solidarity parade” rather than an official engagement.
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